Interdependence of Vision and Audition among Inexperienced and Experienced Tennis Players

Mead, Tim P.; Drowatzky, John N.

doi:10.2466/pms.1997.85.1.163

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“…This is clearly a limitation of the study. However, a previous study depriving tennis players of auditory information found that both experienced and inexperienced individuals were equally aff ected on a task examining the ability to anticipate the direction of a shot ( Mead & Drowatzky, 1997 ), suggesting they are not immune to auditory interference. However, there are clear diff erences in the task used in this previous study and the one used in the present study.…”

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“…Being able to determine the speed of an approaching tennis ball is clearly important in this situation, and expert tennis players develop an enhanced ability to discriminate speed compared with other athletes ( Overney, Blanke, & Herzog, 2008 ). Studies demonstrate that service return performance worsens when auditory information is degraded through wearing ear plugs ( Takeuchi, 1993 ) and depriving a player of auditory input also has a negative infl uence when anticipating the direction of an opponent's shot ( Mead & Drowatzky, 1997 ).…”

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Silencing Sharapova's Grunt Improves the Perception of Her Serve Speed

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Punt

2015

Percept Mot Skills

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In recent years, grunting has become a familiar although generally unwelcome element of tennis. The behavior is considered to deny opponents the benefit of receiving optimal multi-sensory information in order to plan their own shots. The ability to make accurate serve-speed judgments of identical tennis serves presented on a computer screen, and accompanied by a grunt or not, was assessed among 38 participants (19 men). Accuracy and response time were measured. Analysis compared performance for below versus above average speed serves and for the grunt versus the no grunt condition. Grunting had a disruptive effect on serve-speed perception for below average serves, with most judged incorrectly to be above average. Response times for below average serves were also slower in the grunt condition. Grunting provides a complex perceptual challenge, and greater effort may be attributed to tennis serves with an accompanying grunt.

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2015

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“…Indeed, the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach to cue integration (Ernst and Banks, 2002) would then also suggest that the reliability of the sensory cues (e.g., sound vs. touch) will determine how heavily it is weighted by the brain and thus determine its ability to alter the overall multisensory percept. Exploring those circumstances in which auditory cues are highly reliable, such as when providing information about the force of a tennis ball coming straight at you (Mead and Drowatzky, 1997) for example, would allow one to test the hypothesis that MLE can be used to model bodyand movement-relevant perceptual inference. Similarly, causal inference in multisensory perception via Bayesian modeling provides relevant information for perceptual changes based on the combination of prior knowledge/experience with noisy incoming sensory input (Vilares and Kording, 2011).…”

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“…While recent work clearly highlights that expert tennis players' judgments of tennis ball trajectory are influenced by the sound heard (Canal-Bruland et al, 2018), no work has directly evaluated the effect of tennis player expertise (inexperienced vs. expert) when non-veridical auditory input is provided. Past work has focused on the effect of tennis expertise when either accurate or no auditory input is provided (Mead and Drowatzky, 1997).…”

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The Influence of Auditory Cues on Bodily and Movement Perception

Stanton

Spence

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The sounds that result from our movement and that mark the outcome of our actions typically convey useful information concerning the state of our body and its movement, as well as providing pertinent information about the stimuli with which we are interacting. Here we review the rapidly growing literature investigating the influence of non-veridical auditory cues (i.e., inaccurate in terms of their context, timing, and/or spectral distribution) on multisensory body and action perception, and on motor behavior. Inaccurate auditory cues provide a unique opportunity to study cross-modal processes: the ability to detect the impact of each sense when they provide a slightly different message is greater. Additionally, given that similar crossmodal processes likely occur regardless of the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory input, studying incongruent interactions are likely to also help us predict interactions between congruent inputs. The available research convincingly demonstrates that perceptions of the body, of movement, and of surface contact features (e.g., roughness) are influenced by the addition of non-veridical auditory cues. Moreover, auditory cues impact both motor behavior and emotional valence, the latter showing that sounds that are highly incongruent with the performed movement induce feelings of unpleasantness (perhaps associated with lower processing fluency). Such findings are relevant to the design of auditory cues associated with product interaction, and the use of auditory cues in sport performance and therapeutic situations given the impact on motor behavior.

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“…First, early findings demonstrated that auditory perception is closely related to players’ performance in tennis [18, 19]. In these studies, players’ actual performance in tennis matches [18] and in anticipating a ball’s trajectory [19] suffered if auditory information was blocked completely by wearing earplugs.…”

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The sound of speed: How grunting affects opponents’ anticipation in tennis

2019

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Grunting in tennis is a widespread phenomenon and whether it influences opponents’ predictions of ball trajectory—and if so, why—is subject of ongoing debate. Two alternative hypotheses have been proposed to explain why grunting may impede opponents’ predictions, referred to as the distraction account (i.e., grunts capture attentional resources necessary for anticipation) and the multisensory integration account (i.e., auditory information from the grunt systematically influences ball trajectory prediction typically assumed to rely on visual information). To put these competing hypotheses to test, in the current study we presented tennis players with a series of temporally occluded video clips of tennis rallies featuring experimentally amplified, attenuated, or muted grunting sounds. Participants were asked to predict the ball landing position. Results indicated that higher grunt intensities yielded judgments of longer ball trajectories whereas radial prediction errors were not affected. These results are clearly at odds with the distraction account of grunting, predicting increased prediction errors after higher intensity grunts. In contrast, our findings provide strong support for the multisensory integration account by demonstrating that grunt intensity systematically influences judgments of ball trajectory.

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Interdependence of Vision and Audition among Inexperienced and Experienced Tennis Players

Cited by 10 publications

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Silencing Sharapova's Grunt Improves the Perception of Her Serve Speed

Silencing Sharapova's Grunt Improves the Perception of Her Serve Speed

The Influence of Auditory Cues on Bodily and Movement Perception

The sound of speed: How grunting affects opponents’ anticipation in tennis

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